'Plimsoll's mark' definitions:

Definition of 'Plimsoll's mark'

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Plimsoll's mark \Plim"soll's mark`\ (Naut.) A mark conspicuously painted on the port side of all British sea-going merchant vessels, to indicate the limit of submergence allowed by law; -- so called from Samuel Plimsoll, by whose efforts the act of Parliament to prevent overloading was procured. [1913 Webster]

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